zap.store 0.1.0 is here!
For months I have been dreaming of a better app store, frustrated by big tech's permissioned bs, GPG's complexities, and Obtainium's reliance on centralized services and poor UX.
Here's the first (very alpha) iteration of zap.store, a permissionless app store leveraging the nostr social graph.
✔ Android only (for now! Desktop coming soon)
✔ Obtainium drop-in replacement (smaller catalog but growing)
✔ App releases are signed/curated by this account, as developers start self-signing
✔ Web of trust check before installing an app
https://image.nostr.build/c2c871671ee42586cdb33ac99d6ac423d6741ad2f8180fd8b7a7cbacc403da79.png
Get it at https://zap.store or https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore
(SHA-256 hash of the APK version 0.1.0 is 8540bd492064c17d83bcdc6d2a463c2aea46f13c2b0d13b8a96023df95bd0c9d)
You did it! Man you always have great ideas and make slick UIs. This makes me wish I was on Android.
Thank you man! It's never late to come to the right side (the GrapheneOS side obviously 😄)
Good idea. I will check this out.
Let me know what you think of it! A ton more apps coming soon
I definitely will. I like Obtanium, but yours has the potential to be better.
Heavy Obtainium user here (at least until today!). The idea is good but their UX not really, in that regard I'm striving to make it 10x better.
what's wrong with using f-driod? The readme.md was blank on your github
Amazing work.
I’m sure you already know with it being an alpha release - would be great to see a bit more responsive behaviour for mobile. Text is taking-off into space.
Do let the stackers know if you need any help on the project.
Gracias vecino! Yeah, I think you refer to the mobile site, that was fixed today
This is awesome! Can’t wait for desktop 🙌
Thanks Max! Working on it! 🫡
This is a very good idea, I hope to see more updates about it, there are few apps yet, right?
Yes, in order to bootstrap I'm scraping APKs from Github - that's what you see in the app. This until developers start signing their own apps and publishing to different relays, that's when it will flourish
I see, it looks good, hopefully, you succeed, we need more decentralized solutions!
A+ for the name.
I just want to say again what a great idea this is, @franzap. The fact that it's nostr was a great idea . I have it installed on my graphene OS pixel. I can't wait until it's a full Obtanium replacement.
Working hard on the UX! Please keep the feedback coming
https://media.tenor.com/S2_k8jNhy1QAAAAC/the-mandalorian-this-is-the-way.gif
It is!
Looking better and better!
Thank you!
Hey, this looks really good
I didn't read how it works yet, I'll take a look at it tomorrow
Would my Stacker News for Android work on zap store out of the box? The link to the app is on my bio
Thanks!
Of course, it's available now 🤙
Updated mutiny with this no problem! Pretty slick
Great to know! Thanks!
nice work
Ah the future! Great start!
wow this is really cool
this is a great idea and you picked a great name, can't wait to check it out
Amazing! This should definitely serve the purpose. We badly require one permission less app store for privacy and decentralisation.
Slowly but surely
cool!
this is so great to see. thank you. fyi when I click on the link at bottom of zap.store page it takes me to nostrudel login page and can't see post.
but can see it using this service:
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp9rs7n9uktz8plu2zt4hymp30epjsqyz9ufyg5w7skxggp97p30qzypuvuma2wgny8pegfej8hf5n3x2hxhkgcl2utfjhxlj4zv8sycc86fr7akp
I’ll check it out. Thanks. 🙏
Looks impressive.
Thank you!
For anyone looking at this now, we have moved the website to https://zapstore.dev
why does an app store ask for login?
So you can use your web of trust. It is not mandatory
Did you know F-Droid supports IPFS?
So? Releases are signed by F-Droid
If the dev releases reproducible builds it will be signed by both F-Droid and the developer.
Sure you but you need developers releasing reproducible builds and people attesting to them, definitely not the norm
Looks good!
But can you translate this for normies?
For who don't know, you can add repo to Obtainum on Android to get automatic updates directly from the source. 👍🏻